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Readings
• Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. Translated by Willard R. Trask. New York: Harper and Row, 1961.
• Hinnels, John, ed. The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion. 2nd ed. Oxford: Routledge, 2010.
• Livingston, James C. Anatomy of the Sacred: An Introduction to Religion. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.
• Pals, Daniel. Nine Theories of Religion. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Segal, Robert A. and Kocku von Stuckrad, eds. Vocabulary for the Study of Religion. 3 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
• Smart, Ninian. Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World’s Beliefs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
• Smith, Jonathan Z. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1982.
• Taylor, Mark C., ed. Critical Terms for Religious Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Weblinks
• American Academy of Religion—www.aarweb.org—The largest and most influential North American academic society for the study of religion.
• Society of Biblical Literature—www.sbl-site.org
• Pew Research Religion and the Public Life Project—www.pewforum.org—Excellent source of information on issues involving social and political aspects of religion.
• The Pluralism Project at Harvard University—www.pluralism.org—Offers an impressive array of helpful resources, especially with regard to the world’s religions in North America
• Religion-Online—www.religion-online.org
Film
• The Long Search 13: “Reflections on the Long Search: Loose Ends” (1978)